My lawn merges into forest on three sides... there's a 'transition zone'. So far I've been letting whatever greenery that wins the battle of survival just stay there as the victor. But always I have in mind to tackle the mosses around here one day.

So I was interested to hear a lady with a 'moss in lawn' problem phone in to CBC's Ontario Today with John Bradshaw. According to him. mosses will thrive in areas of over-compaction and under-nutrition.

I know for sure that would apply to most areas of my lawn! lol

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience......Ralph Waldo Emmerson....

The nutrition would be easy enuf, but the only way to aerate is to rent an aerator and pluck plugs out from all over your lawn. There's probably enuf grass mixed with the moss to reestablish itself, maybe.

I would think of it as a two or three year project.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience......Ralph Waldo Emmerson....

You could try spreading some lime to start. Moss likes acid soil. Add some fertilizer for the grass . You could spread a thin layer of mixed compost and fertilizer to bring up the soils fertility, and if the area with the moss problem has a tendency to remain wet, try to find a way to improve drainage there. You could also set your mower to cut the grass a little higher where there is moss. That lets the grass gain a bit of advantage over the lower growing moss.

I took the easy way out by going to an outfit called Apache Seed. They sold me something called Moss Soft with fertilizer mixed in which you attach to the garden hosesoak first with water then spray the product. Two days later the moss had turned black & the grass starting to green up. I'm optomistic that by summer's end that the grass will be recovered & the moss gone.

I took the easy way out by going to an outfit called Apache Seed. They sold me something called Moss Soft with fertilizer mixed in which you attach to the garden hosesoak first with water then spray the product. Two days later the moss had turned black & the grass starting to green up. I'm optomistic that by summer's end that the grass will be recovered & the moss gone.